Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-27
THE DEATH OF o. s. FOWLER.
Veteran Phrenoiogtst Who Was Known
Throughout the World.
New York star, Aug. 20

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| New York star, Aug. 20
.. S. Fowler, the veteran phrenologist,
author snd lecturer, died st his home in
i Sharon Station, n. y, sitter an illness of
but thirty hours, produced by severe
cold. He was born in the year 1902: he
was in the seventy eighth wear OF mis-
age. His death closes the career Of g
very eventful and useful life
Mr. Fowler was graduate
from Amherst College IL the clssS with
Henry Ward Baecher. He started
from mis- home in Steuben county, resch-
| ing AMI after Journey OF nearly 100
miles on foot, worried for students sud ct
odd jobs il the neigb50rhood 10 pay his
tuition, and graduated with hOnOrs in
1884. Though entering college for the
ministry, in 1882, through residing SDurtz-
helms x Combe's works on phrenolOgy,
which Henry Ward BeeCher loaned him,
ne became very much Interested in
their system OF mental philosophy,
snd was soon giving class room lectures
and examining the hesGs OF students
From MS remarkable ''1it5" N describing
character ne soon became quite E local
celebrity, and at tie graduation, being
! ~ NNcLAlutJt &c SlALASu CuL III SHE'LL
| adjoining towns 10 lecture and examine.
HIS success IVES sc decided and wtthal so
! profitable that he determined to pursue it
rather thar the ministry.
| FtOm that time to the present ne has
been hard thinker, most interchangeable
worker and has made his mark on his age
and country. He very soon took his
brother L. y. Fowler into the vCIk with
m n anna 70 Nan ~ I
office in old Clinton hall, Nassau street,
started the chronological Journal, Water
| Cure Journal, Life Illustrated, etc, wrote
cooks rapidly, till the publishing house
had q literature Of its Own, which,
reached ap enormous circulation,
and spread not only over all our country,
but reached remote parts Of foreign
lands. The works OF Gall, SpuriZieim
& Combes had been read IS system Of
mental science, but little vas undo rstood
of it until y. S. Fowler began to eX-
pound it, and he WIS the first 10 Hormu-
late from it system for the application
OF it to the choice of pursuit or business,
and demonstrate the special adaptation
Of each man to given line OF work.
Hence he became the recognized founder
of practical phrenologY in America.
Few public men Of twenty-five year:
ago but could relate some striking Incl
dent in connection with the examination
of his head by one OF the Fowler brothers
and it is safe to s2y that to-day there are
few intelligent men who are not familiar
with their names. o. s. Fowler was al
ways foremost in all works of reform anC
progress, and great enemy ID slavery
intemperanCe and every prevailing evi
that lowered the scale Of manhood. Tht
scope of the philosophy ne clampioneC
and taught had for It's aim and end tn,
elevation and enlightenment of his fellow
beings. The publishing house of Fowle
& Wells has in its long career spent fai
fortune in the voluntary distribution o
books and periodicals calculated to pro
mote good morals. Travelling as he hat
been for the past forty years or NOR
from Maine to California, from TIT
Gulf states to and through Canada
there are millions to testify to some new
stimulus to selt-imprcvement which ne
through an examination, started in thei
minds. Like Greeley, Beecher and other
of his early cO-workers, ne died in tn
harness snd has left behind him Il nam
that will not perish, but be GRATEFUL
treasured in households al over our LAM
for the benefits derived from his hayin.
lived.